Undergarment.



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UNITED STATES PATENT orrion.

JACOB n. REED, or SCHUYLKILL UNDERGARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

Application filed June 22, 1912. Serial No. 705,321.

To (all 'IF/LIHI'I, itwmy concern:

Be it known that'we, JACon 1). Reno, a citizen of the United States, residing at Schuylkill Haven, in the county of Schuylkill and State of Pennsylvania, and Lao Soiniin'r, a citizen of the United States, re siding at the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented new-and useful Improvements in Undergarments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to undergarments for womens use and is especially applicable to union garments comprising undershirt, drawers, and undershirt, although our inventionma'y be applied to a garment comprising drawers and undershirt alone, and has for one of its main objects to provide a single garment of one thickness throughout and closed from neck to legs, having all the advantages of two or more garments usually made separate from each other, at the same time avoiding many pf the objectionable features and inconveniences found in wear-' two or more garments separately C011- without theuse of seams at objectionable points, the special construction and configuration of the garment adapting the same to thoroughly cover the body with comfort and ease to the wearer and to protect the body where most needed, at the same time providing a closed crotch having the necessary elast city, and leg openlngs of the necessary fullness of material to permit the lower end of the garment to be drawn to one side when desired.

Other objects relating to our invention are hereinafter stated. Those objects we accomplish by the means herein specified and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which similar characters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a rearelevatio-n of a garment embodying our invention, Fig. 2' is a front elevation of the garment shown in Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a plan of the back section of the arment, Fig, 4 is a front perspective of he garment applied as when in use, and Fig 0 s a rear PCISPCCUVG Of the gar1nent'arranged as shown in Fig. 4;.

The garment is preferably made out of section or piece of material forming both the upper or shirt portion 1 and thelower combined under-skirt and drawers portion 2. The edges of the front section are cut on lines 4 5 to form the leg portions of the garment especially large and ,a V-shaped notch is cut in the tentral portion of the lower end of the trout section along the lines (5-7.' The b ackof the garment as illustrated in the drawings comprises an upper or shirt section 8 having shoulder pieces 9 connected with the front sections of the garment, and lower outer sections 11 stitched at their upper edges to the upper section Salong the line 12. The lateral edgcs'of the upper section 8 are stitched tothe lateral edges of the upper or body portionof the front section 1 of the garment along the lines '3-4 of the front section. A central back section 10 is preferably arranged bctween the two outer sections 11, the outer edges of thesections 11 along the lines 13 11 coinciding with the outer margins of the lower portion of the front sec ition of the garment along the lines 4l-5 and being stitched thereto.

The inner edges 15 ,of the outer sections 11 of the back of the 'garment are stitched to the outer edges of the middle back section 10 along the lines 1G--17.' The back section 10 is cut away centrally at its lower portion along the lines18-+19 to form lc'g pieces, and along the lines 7-19 to form a lap or tongue betweensaid leg pieces. The leg pieces of the back section 10 extend to the ends of the legs of the front section and are stitched at their inner edges to the inner edge of the legs of the front section along the lines --19 of said front section. The lap or tongue 20 of the back section 10 is turned forward and stitched at both of its edges to the edges of the cut away portion of the front section along the lines 7-19 of the front section to form a closed crotch.

If desired, the lower portion of the 'garp A union garment ment may be made Without the upper or shirt portion, and a waist band or yoke may be attached to the upper portion of such a garment along the line 12.

hat We claim as new and desire to se cure by Letters Patent is comprising body and garment being completely closed from the neck portion to the lower ends of the leg portions at both front and rear, a substantially triangular shaped gusset inserted in the rear of tie garment extending from the waist line to the bottom of the legs, the intermediate portion of the leg portions, said lower edge of the gusset being shaped to provide a triangular extension -which is stitched to the garment through the crotch and extends to a point above the crotch at the front of the garment.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto 2n signed our names in the presence of two attesting witnesses.

JACOB D. REED. LEO SCHMIDT. 

